Dana is an investment professional with 13+ years of M&A and portfolio management experience with top tier buy side and sell side firms in MENA and Europe driving the structuring and execution of strategic acquisitions and divestments for principal investors and family offices. She covered multiple sectors spanning construction, industrial manufacturing, financial institutions, early-stage tech, retail and healthcare and also optimized the portfolio of companies under management, with a focus on cultivating and growing the asset base and fulfilling shareholders aspirations.
She currently represents the investments and portfolio management team at EII CAPITAL and serves as a board member and investment committee member on select portfolio companies including Dubai Angel Investors. Prior to EII CAPITAL, Dana was a Senior Associate at leading high net worth family office in Lebanon, where she focused on managing M&A transactions and monitoring portfolio companies related to various industries including banking, insurance, luxury retail and others. Previously, she was a Manager at PwC in the Transaction Services team executing financial due diligence and valuation projects across the Middle East focusing on retail, insurance and FMCG. Dana was also an Associate at Barclays in London where she was involved in a wide range of M&A transactions focusing on Banks and Wealth Management clients in Europe. She began her career in investments at Gulf Capital in UAE, where she actively participated in origination, analysis and execution of private equity deals in MENA.
Across her experience, Dana’s main responsibilities included project management, recommending to clients and partners optimum solutions for deal structuring and execution in addition to assisting executive teams in setting and achieving their business plan.
Dana earned a Master of Finance degree from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Finance from the Lebanese American University.
